New information emerges in the Jacob Blake shooting. The RNC begins with a bang as Republicans hit on crime, communism, and communism. And Nikki Haley and Tim Scott compete for speech of the night. Ben Shapiro talks about the latest in the case of Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old black man who was shot and killed by police in response to a fight between two women on a street corner in the early morning hours of July 25th, 2019. He also talks about Joe Biden's initial response to the shooting, and whether or not the shooting was unjustified, and what we should do about racism in America. And he talks about why we need to dismantle racism, and why we should all be treated equally, no matter who you are or what your political views are. Ben also discusses the recent shooting of an unarmed black man in a car by police, and the lack of accountability for the police officer who fired into a car with three kids in the back of his car, who was a good Samaritan trying to help a woman involved in the fight between the two women in the altercation. The full episode is available on The Ben Shapiro Show wherever you get your news and information, including on social media. Subscribe to the Ben Shapiro show on Apple Podcasts and listen to the full show wherever you re listening to the show on your favorite streaming platform. You can also become a supporter of the show by liking, commenting and sharing the show! Subscribe, sharing, and sharing it on your social media accounts, and spreading the word to your friends and family! Thanks for listening to Ben Shapiro and all your thoughts and thoughts on this episode! - Your feedback helps us spread the word about Ben Shapiro's work and Ben's thoughts and stories! Thank you Ben Shapiro and Ben Shapiro on the show, and we'll be looking out for Ben's work everywhere! Tweet me :) on if you're listening to this episode on your feed! on Insta: or share it! and tag him on Instapaper! or Insta to BenShannon on Insta? Thanks BenShaperson & Instapersonal Tim Scott - . @bencrudell at in your feed , v=aPt_t=1_t_m_t&t=
00:00:20.000Protect your online privacy today at expressvpn.com slash ben.
00:00:24.000Well, we'll get to the opener of the Republican National Convention, which was really well produced.
00:00:28.000I mean, much better produced than the DNC, which had all sorts of sort of technological hiccups.
00:00:33.000The RNC actually ran very smoothly, which you would expect from President Trump.
00:00:36.000I mean, the fact is that there's one thing President Trump knows, and that thing is reality TV.
00:00:40.000And so the convention was actually quite well produced.
00:00:42.000We'll get to everything convention related in just one second.
00:00:45.000I need to give you an update on the Jacob Blake case.
00:00:47.000So, I suggested yesterday that perhaps we should wait for more information.
00:00:50.000You know, because we needed more information.
00:00:52.000And all we had was a grainy piece of footage that was taken from across the street, the first seconds of which were completely cut off, and which showed Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old black man, walking away from police, whose guns were drawn on him, and then he reaches into a car and then they shoot him.
00:01:07.000And this prompted the likes of Joe Biden to issue awful statements on this whole thing, jumping to the conclusion that this was, once again, systemic American racism against black Americans, an unjustified shooting of an unarmed black man caught on camera, that nothing had preceded it.
00:01:23.000Everything just happened the way that Benjamin Crump, the attorney, said.
00:01:26.000Remember, Benjamin Crump's claim was that Jacob Blake was a good Samaritan who basically had gone to break up a fight between two women and then had walked away.
00:01:34.000And the cops, for no reason, just decided to follow him and shoot him.
00:01:37.000Well, it turns out that shock of shocks, that was not in fact the case.
00:01:40.000First of all, it turns out, as we knew yesterday, that Jacob Blake, there's an open warrant out on Jacob Blake for things including sexual assault and domestic violence.
00:01:50.000And none of this stopped Joe Biden from putting out the statement yesterday.
00:01:53.000Joe Biden put out the following statement about the Jacob Blake shooting in the absence of any surrounding evidence without waiting for any new evidence to come out.
00:02:00.000He said, No mention of the fact that this is a man for whom there was an arrest warrant out with three kids in the back of his car.
00:02:03.000attempted to restrain him from getting into his car.
00:02:06.000His children watched from inside the car and bystanders watched in disbelief.
00:02:10.000No mention of the fact that this was a man for whom there was an arrest warrant out with three kids in the back of his car.
00:02:14.000Now, typically, if you have a guy out, an arrest warrant out on a guy for domestic violence and sexual assault of a minor, which is what this was, it was sexual assault of a 15 year old, I believe was the actual case that they're talking about, according to statutory law, somebody underage.
00:02:27.000Typically, you don't let that person get in the car with kids and drive away.
00:02:32.000wrote, his children watched from inside the car and bystanders watched in disbelief.
00:02:36.000And this morning, the nation wakes up yet again with grief and outrage that yet another black American is a victim of excessive force.
00:02:41.000So he's just going to go right with the excessive force line.
00:02:44.000This calls for immediate, full and transparent investigation.
00:02:46.000And the officers must be held accountable.
00:02:48.000So he already knows the outcome of the investigation, which is magic.
00:02:50.000And I definitely trust Democrats on preliminarily jumping to conclusions, considering that Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren and many members of the Democratic Party are still claiming years later after two independent prosecutorial investigations, state prosecutors in Ferguson, Missouri, and one Obama DOJ investigation that the shooting of Michael Brown was not It was a justified shooting by a police officer.
00:03:38.000We must fight to honor the ideals laid in the original American promise, which we are yet to attain.
00:03:42.000That all men and women are created equal, but more importantly, that they must be treated equally.
00:03:46.000Well, let me just point out that if a person resists arrest, by which we mean that the person resists arrest to the point where apparently there are reports that he was tased and he walked away from it and he was throwing off officers and then reaches into their car, I have a feeling the cops don't let white people get away with that either.
00:04:03.000Okay, in any case, new tape emerges from a different angle.
00:04:06.000The telephone video is not particularly good, but you can get like a brief view here of what's going on.
00:04:11.000So this is the other side of the SUV where Jacob Blake was shot shortly before you see him walking around the other side of the car and being shot.
00:04:17.000If you pause it right there, you can see that Jacob Blake is basically on the ground, right?
00:04:23.000And then he shakes the officers loose, as you're about to see, and he gets up and he starts walking away from the officers who now have their weapons drawn because he's resisting arrest.
00:04:39.000People are standing around shouting at the police officers.
00:04:41.000He gets up and he starts walking around the car.
00:04:45.000Now, if you're a police officer and he has just shrugged you off, right, he has just fought you off, and he reaches into the car, are we under the impression that he is reaching into the car and he reaches down into the car?
00:04:53.000That he's reaching down into the car for, like, what exactly?
00:04:58.000I mean, what exactly is he reaching for at that point?
00:05:01.000If you're a cop, you are trained in that situation, that if somebody reaches into the car after having resisted arrest, that there's a good shot that that person might be going for something that is not going to be good for you.
00:05:11.000Hey, so in any case, does this mean that the shooting was justified?
00:05:14.000No, we don't have enough evidence still.
00:05:16.000But is this the original story we were told by Benjamin Crump?
00:05:19.000That this is a man who's just breaking up a fight between a good Samaritan, breaking up a fight between two women, and then just calmly walking back to his car when he was accosted for no reason by the police?
00:05:42.000Systemic American racism is always what is to blame for every situation that you don't like, whether or not there is evidence.
00:05:51.000The officers involved in the shooting are already placed on administrative leave.
00:05:54.000They are said to be cooperating with investigators, according to the Wisconsin Department of Justice, and the state DOJ has already launched an investigation into the shooting.
00:06:02.000Meanwhile, the police union representing the officers on the Kenosha police force released a statement on Monday criticizing Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers, who immediately condemned the excessive force used by cops.
00:06:11.000Pete Dates, the president of the Kenosha Professional Police Association said, anytime deadly force is used, our hearts go out to those affected by it.
00:06:17.000We assure you an independent investigation is being conducted by the Wisconsin DOJ, Division of Criminal Investigation. But none of that matters because the riots started.
00:06:29.000People really don't like furniture, and they really don't like cars.
00:06:34.000The police association said until the investigation is complete, we ask that you withhold pre-judgment about the incident and please let the process take place.
00:06:41.000Governor Evers' statement on the incident was wholly irresponsible and not reflective of the hardworking members of the law enforcement community, not to mention the citizens of the city of Kenosha.
00:06:49.000As always, the video currently circulating does not capture all the intricacies of a highly dynamic incident.
00:06:54.000We ask that you withhold from passing judgment until all the facts are known and released.
00:07:08.000Politicians decide they can make hay off of claiming that America is systemically racist.
00:07:12.000In no way does this make America a better place.
00:07:14.000In no way does this improve race relations in the United States.
00:07:17.000When you claim that every individual incident is an indicator, a symptom of a broader systemic problem, without evidence, Then what you are doing is setting the scene for burning of cities.
00:07:30.000When you suggest that individual incidents without evidence must actually be racist, then what you are doing is something truly terrible.
00:07:39.000And you bear responsibility for what comes next.
00:07:42.000And that is what's happening right here.
00:07:45.000You can see on this video in Kenosha, people, these are, I assume, white, you can see in the video, it's like white Antifa members probably, setting fires to that dumpster.
00:07:53.000That dumpster right there, that was a systemically racist dumpster.
00:08:18.000Which was good, because the cars were systemically racist.
00:08:21.000All of these objects were systemically racist.
00:08:23.000And it seems to me that the Black Lives Matter movement, which has resulted in this sort of chaos in major American cities across the country, I'm wondering what's the good it did.
00:08:35.000In fact, American perceptions of Black Lives Matter are back where they were before the George Floyd shooting, which demonstrates exactly how much goodwill the BLM movement has completely blown in the United States.
00:08:46.000As well they should have, because this behavior is indicative of a serious issue.
00:08:51.000When it turns out that protests routinely devolve into rioting and looting, perhaps there is a problem.
00:08:57.000We're gonna get to more of this in a second.
00:08:58.000By the way, the New York Times headline, I should just say, the New York Times tweeted out, this was their tweet, about Kenosha being burned last night.
00:09:03.000Quote, peaceful marches in Kenosha, Wisconsin against the police shooting of a black man gave way to fires and destruction.
00:09:42.000See, in the leftist way of thinking, unfortunately, in the far left way of thinking, The angrier you are at the system, the more the system is to blame for your anger.
00:09:51.000Therefore, your anger is always justified, and any resistance to the system is justified as well.
00:09:57.000In fact, if you really want to show how bad the system is, you burn crap, because that demonstrates how an- you wouldn't be this angry if the system weren't corrupt.
00:10:04.000You wouldn't be this angry for no good reason.
00:10:07.000Barack Obama said this directly about the Ferguson, Missouri riots.
00:10:09.000When those were happening, after the officer Darren Wilson was acquitted, after the grand jury didn't indict, Barack Obama went out there and said, people, don't just make this stuff up!
00:10:20.000Except that in that particular case, everything was actually made up.
00:10:22.000But the idea is the more angry you are, the more you must be justified in your anger.
00:11:16.000With their powerful matching technology, ZipRecruiter scans thousands of resumes to find people with the right experience and then actively invites them to apply to your job.
00:11:23.000ZipRecruiter makes the entire hiring process efficient and effective with features like screening questions to filter candidates and an all-in-one dashboard where you can review and rate your candidates.
00:11:31.000ZipRecruiter is so effective that 4 out of 5 employers who post on ZipRecruiter get a quality candidate within the very first day.
00:11:37.000Right now, to try ZipRecruiter for free, my listeners can go to ZipRecruiter.com slash DailyWire.
00:11:41.000That is ZipRecruiter.com slash D-A-I-L-Y-W-I-R-E.
00:11:52.000And let's say that each morning, he just started announcing out of the blue that he had 10 seconds to airtime when the teleprompter wasn't even up yet.
00:11:59.000You might think to yourself, well, Pavel, love you, man, but ZipRecruiter it is for you.
00:12:03.000If you need to replace someone like Pavel, you need to check out ZipRecruiter.com slash Daily Wire.
00:12:07.000That is ZipRecruiter, the smartest way to hire.
00:12:10.000Okay, so the headline from the New York Times again is that Jacob Blake shooting prompts tense protests and fires in several cities.
00:12:44.000We have moved from a view of racism in the United States that racism is a barrier to people making free decisions to people making free and bad decisions is a result of racism.
00:12:57.000It used to be that Americans were angry at racism because actual instances of racism deprived people of the ability to make decisions that were good for themselves.
00:13:05.000Now people make active bad decisions for themselves and their neighbors, and we blame racism for the active bad decisions they're making.
00:13:12.000That's the way all these headlines are phrased from the New York Times.
00:13:15.000Julie Bosman, a reporter from the New York Times, writes like this.
00:13:18.000Peaceful marches in protest of a police shooting gave way to fires, destruction, and looting in Kenosha, as a strip of businesses in a central residential neighborhood was consumed in flames early Tuesday.
00:13:27.000Residents emerged from their houses overnight to gape at billowing smoke that could be seen for miles.
00:13:32.000Lost in the blaze, neighbors said, was a mattress store.
00:13:34.000Well, those mattresses were systemically racist.
00:14:15.000Okay, it's obviously the police, right?
00:14:19.000It's obviously that the cops are the ones who are most at fault here when we watch cities burn.
00:14:22.000Okay, so all of this has a relatively large political impact.
00:14:26.000Okay, so that was the basis for the RNC last night.
00:14:30.000The Democrats completely ignored this for like a full-on week.
00:14:32.000For a full-on week, the Democrats completely ignored everything that was going on in these major cities.
00:14:37.000And it turns out Americans care about it.
00:14:38.000There were polls that demonstrate that Americans care about it.
00:14:41.000There was a Pew poll that came out last week.
00:14:43.00059% of Americans say they are deeply worried about increased violence in America's major cities, which they should be.
00:14:49.00063%, by the way, say they are concerned about coronavirus.
00:14:51.000So that means that this is a top priority and Democrats completely ignored it.
00:14:54.000So it's not surprising that Republicans decided that they were going to push on this particular issue as well they should.
00:14:59.000That's particularly true given that President Trump's strategy here is apparently to win over some of the people in the middle, but it is also to drive out rural votes in the same way that he did in 2016.
00:15:10.000That strategy could bear fruit given the media's unwillingness to cover this stuff honestly, given the Democrats' unwillingness to call out evil and violence for exactly what it is.
00:15:21.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
00:15:23.000We'll get started with the RNC in just one second.
00:15:25.000First, you've heard me talk about how important it is to have a VPN.
00:15:28.000Now that a lot of you are working from home, it's even more important to choose a VPN that you trust.
00:15:31.000I can say with full confidence, ExpressVPN is the best VPN on the market, and here is why.
00:15:35.000Number one, ExpressVPN doesn't log your data.
00:15:37.000Lots of really cheap or free VPNs make money by selling your data to ad companies.
00:15:41.000ExpressVPN has developed a technology called Trusted Server that makes it impossible for their servers to log any of your information.
00:16:58.000No, that was the DNC, where they were claiming that America was systemically racist, that everybody in America was going to die from COVID, that we were living on the verge of a dictatorship.
00:17:06.000That was the campaign, night after night, last week.
00:17:09.000Barack Obama said we are literally living on the verge of a dictatorship.
00:17:11.000Michelle Obama said there's a never-ending list of black Americans being murdered by the cops.
00:17:15.000So if you're going to talk about dystopian hellscape views of the United States, it's pretty obvious that the Democrats were pushing that line.
00:17:21.000But since the gaslighting by the media has gone so incredibly far, we've now reversed the narrative.
00:17:26.000And the narrative is that when Republicans talk about how America is a great place, yes, there are problems here, but America is an incredible place founded on good principles.
00:17:35.000And that we are getting past COVID, and that we are working to solve problems, and that we can do this if granted freedom.
00:17:41.000The media played this as though Republicans have a dark vision of America.
00:17:45.000No, Americans have a dark vision of Marxism.
00:17:47.000Republicans have a dark vision of the future that Democrats would like to see pervade.
00:17:51.000And frankly, looking at America's major blue cities, I have no reason to doubt that particular narrative.
00:17:56.000My favorite headline, by the way, of the day had nothing to do with the RNC.
00:17:59.000My favorite headline of the day was the LA Times being very, very angry that Republicans keep beating up on California.
00:18:09.000Here was the LA Times headline last night.
00:18:10.000Speakers at the RNC turned California into a dystopian punchline, portraying America's most populous state as a dangerous wasteland ruled by liberal politicians who are oblivious to public safety.
00:18:20.000No, actually, it turns out that Democrats turned California into a dystopian punchline.
00:18:54.000But the media are like, how dare Republicans portray major American cities that are on fire, overrun with homelessness and poverty.
00:19:01.000How dare they portray these places as bad?
00:19:05.000So the actual narrative last night is that America is quite wonderful and it is filled with wonderful people and Democrats keep telling you that your neighbors are racist and terrible people while simultaneously saying the government will solve all of your problems and solving none of them.
00:19:20.000There was a lot of focus at the RNC on the quote-unquote common man, a lot more than there was at the Democratic Party National Convention.
00:19:26.000The DNC was based almost entirely on the idea that Donald Trump is a bad orange man who's bad and orange, as we discussed last week.
00:19:33.000There was very little focus on the middle class or low-income Americans and what Democrats are going to do to uplift them.
00:19:41.000There was certainly no focus on the riots and the looting.
00:19:43.000Instead, it was America's systemically racist and Joe Biden, the octogenarian political animal who's been there for 50 years, is going to be your beacon of light in the wilderness.
00:19:54.000Republicans went in a different direction.
00:19:55.000They made an overt play for people who are middle and lower income, and they made an overt play for people who are fearful of what's going on in America's major cities.
00:20:04.000Here was the opening video narrated by my friend, Jon Voight.
00:20:09.000Despite unpredictable events, we as Americans work together to overcome challenges, write our own stories.
00:20:32.000There's nothing wrong with this sort of patriotism.
00:20:34.000I know that at the DNC, people were trying to elide under God from the early hours of the DNC before he saw them in primetime, and then lie about it by having Joe Biden have his grandkids do the Pledge of Allegiance and sing the national anthem.
00:20:46.000But there's no question which party has a greater sense of patriotism.
00:20:51.000I mean, that's pretty obvious at this point, is it not?
00:20:52.000I mean, the entire Democratic Party platform is that America is systemically racist and terrible.
00:20:57.000And then Joe Biden tries to buy it back a little bit so he can pretend to be moderate.
00:21:01.000Hey, then the RNC did something that I thought that they absolutely needed to do.
00:21:04.000I've been preaching it for weeks on this program.
00:21:05.000I said it would be political malpractice if they did not do it.
00:21:08.000They played a video of various Democratic governors saying that Donald Trump gave them what they needed when it came to COVID, which I've been urging the Trump administration to do for quite a while.
00:21:17.000And people were shocked by the brilliance of it.
00:21:19.000I told you they were going to do this for weeks, or at least that they should.
00:22:51.000Okay, in just a second, we're gonna get to that theme, which was pushed very heavily last night.
00:22:55.000The Trump campaign really made a heavy pitch last night for particularly black voters.
00:22:59.000So there are good polls, like a lot of them, showing that Trump is actually outperforming where he was last time with the black vote, that it is not as monolithic as the Democrats have assumed.
00:23:07.000If Trump makes significant inroads into the black vote, The Democrats have a real problem on their hands.
00:23:12.000This election is a lot closer than some of these polls are suggesting.
00:23:14.000Chris Wallace pointed that out last night.
00:23:16.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
00:23:18.000First, many of us have become expert homebodies these last few months, but there is a downside to not leaving your home, which is that often we exercise less.
00:23:27.000Echelon has a huge lineup of connected fitness bikes, fitness mirrors, rowing machines that give you a fun, challenging workout from the comfort and safety of your home.
00:23:35.000In as little as 20 minutes, you can get into the best shape of your life and be active with the entire family.
00:23:39.000Their world-class instructors will motivate you with daily live and on-demand classes that are always available when you need them.
00:23:44.000And unlike their competitors, Echelon is affordable for everyone.
00:23:47.000Their EX1 connected fitness bike is less than half the price of a Peloton.
00:23:50.000So I actually looked at getting a Peloton for the wife, and then we could have cut a Peloton commercial.
00:23:55.000And then it turns out that it was so damned expensive.
00:23:57.000I was like, well, I don't think we're gonna do that.
00:23:59.000And so we ended up with an Echelon, and it is absolutely fantastic.
00:24:28.000There are a couple themes that the Republicans hit on last night.
00:24:31.000As I mentioned, they really made a play for black voters last night.
00:24:34.000And I know that the Democrats think the way you appeal to black voters is by suggesting that America is systemically racist and the police are evil.
00:24:42.000It turns out that 81% of black Americans want the same number of police or more in their communities.
00:24:46.000That the vast majority of black Americans are not, in fact, living below the poverty line.
00:24:51.000That black Americans are by and large middle class, that black Americans actually want safety and security in their communities, that the lie that has been promulgated by the media and in pop culture, that all black Americans are desperate to get the police out of their communities, and that they are warm toward criminality is a lie that has been a lie for decades, and yet that lie is promulgated by the media specifically in order to quote-unquote blame America for criminality problems that exist among individual black Americans, which is ridiculous.
00:25:19.000So several Republicans hit on the crime point, and then there were several kind of big name and very impactful black speakers at the RNC last night.
00:25:26.000Of course, it was closed out by Senator Tim Scott from South Carolina.
00:25:29.000So Jim Jordan hit on the point that Democrats basically are allowing evil to happen in our major cities while preventing you from going to work and school.
00:25:40.000In LA, they're trying to shut down private schools while they permanently allow major protests, while they've allowed looting to ransack half the city.
00:26:21.000And for security moms, you know, people who are living in the suburbs, that makes a difference because this is starting to invade the suburbs.
00:26:27.000I mean, you're seeing BLM rioters, protesters, in some cases the same groups, who are going into suburbs and screaming at people to keep them awake at night.
00:26:37.000This is not relegated to city centers anymore.
00:26:40.000People wonder why there seems to be more ire by more Americans at BLM these days.
00:26:47.000Because this supposedly started off as a righteous crusade and it quickly overthrew those boundaries and turned into a crusade to destroy virtually all American founding principles.
00:27:05.000One of the messages here is that the Democrats keep defending criminality.
00:27:09.000Mark and Patricia McCloskey, that's the famous couple from St.
00:27:12.000Louis, whose gated community was broken into by Black Lives Matter rioters, and it turns into criminality when you break into a gated community.
00:27:18.000And then they held guns outside their house and were then prosecuted by a St.
00:27:21.000Louis prosecutor who was seeking to maintain electoral advantage.
00:27:26.000They spoke at the RNC last night and made the point that the Democrats are defending criminals, they're not defending citizens.
00:27:33.000It seems as if the Democrats no longer view the government's job as protecting honest citizens from criminals, but rather protecting criminals from honest citizens.
00:27:44.000Not a single person in the out-of-control mob you saw at our house was charged with a crime.
00:28:01.000And I think more and more Americans are picking up on this.
00:28:03.000The media have basically blacked out all coverage of the violence, or they've treated it as the predictable side effect of systemic American racism.
00:28:13.000Meanwhile, the RNC made a pitch for black voters.
00:28:16.000So Herschel Walker, who's been a longtime friend of President Trump, he played for the New York Generals when Trump was an owner in the USFL.
00:28:23.000So Herschel Walker spoke at length about his friendship with President Trump.
00:28:31.000I've known Donald Trump for 37 years and I don't mean just casual ranting to him from time to time.
00:28:38.000I'm talking about a deep personal friendship.
00:28:40.000He taught me that the family should be your top priority.
00:28:44.000I watched him treat janitors, security guards, and waiters the same way he would treat a VIP.
00:28:50.000He made them feel special because he knew they were.
00:28:53.000He understands that they are the people who make this country run.
00:28:57.000They clean, they cook, they build, they drive, they deliver.
00:29:01.000Hey, all of this is good, right? And Walker also said, listen, you can love both social justice and the American flag. You don't have to be on the side of flag burners in order to believe that sometimes change is necessary. Here's Herschel Walker.
00:29:13.000Just because someone loves and respect the flag, our national anthem, and our country doesn't mean they don't care about social justice.
00:29:27.000He shows how much he cares about social justice and the black community through his actions.
00:29:32.000And his actions speak louder than stickers or slogans on a jersey.
00:29:37.000By the way, this led, because Twitter is a garbage place filled with garbage people, this led the term Uncle Tom to trend on Twitter last night.
00:30:16.000Called an embarrassment and asked to resign by my own party.
00:30:22.000Unfortunately, that's consistent with the Democratic Party and how they view independent thinking black men and women.
00:30:34.000Okay, and this is absolutely true, obviously, is that the Democratic Party views the black community as an exclusive preserve for their policies, and they should not.
00:30:42.000Because it turns out there are a lot of black Americans who are not really fond of watching their cities burn while excuses are made for the burning by Democrats and by the media.
00:30:49.000We'll get to more of this in just a second, and the big name guests of the convention.
00:30:53.000Some were good, some were not so good.
00:30:55.000We'll get to all of that, the breakdown coming up.
00:30:57.000First, if you need legal help for your challenges, LegalZoom has proven to be a reliable resource for families and business owners everywhere during these unprecedented times.
00:31:04.000LegalZoom has been dedicated to helping you with the right solutions for more than 19 years.
00:31:09.000Whether you need a will or a living trust to protect your family, or if you need help starting a business the right way with a DBA, LLC, nonprofit, or more, LegalZoom can help you do it.
00:31:16.000It's easy to get started online, and if you need guidance, their network of attorneys can provide legal advice to ensure you're making the right choices.
00:31:22.000Since LegalZoom is not a law firm, you won't have to leave your home, you won't get charged by the hour.
00:31:26.000There's really no reason at all for you to be charged too much for your lawyering when you can do all of this quickly and easily using LegalZoom.
00:31:32.000I've been using LegalZoom for years myself, long before they were a sponsor on the show.
00:31:36.000You can use it for wills, you can use it for trust, and now they have an entire legal team that will help you online as well.
00:31:40.000Visit LegalZoom.com today to take care of some important things you need to get done.
00:31:49.000Again, when you check out LegalZoom, you're gonna get all sorts of great services, and it's easy to get started, and they have a network of attorneys.
00:32:31.000Pacific, our own Andrew Klavan will be live streaming President Trump's speech and watching with you, taking your comments and questions, letting you know what he thinks as well.
00:32:38.000We'll be hosting more live watch parties every day for the rest of the week, so don't miss out.
00:32:41.000All Access members get to join these All Access Live sessions, where one of us hops on every night to chat with you, both in live stream and also in the comments.
00:32:49.000All Access membership also features not just one but two leftist series tumblers with your membership, as well as early and sometimes exclusive access to new Daily Wire products.
00:32:58.000So head on over to dailywire.com slash Shapiro right now to get 20% off all access with coupon code access.
00:33:04.000That's dailywire.com slash Shapiro with coupon code access to get 20% off your membership today.
00:33:09.000You're listening to the largest, fastest growing conservative podcast and radio show in the nation.
00:33:12.000Alrighty, so other speakers were great last night.
00:33:22.000As I say, there are a bunch of black Republicans who spoke, I thought, quite wonderfully and eloquently about the fact that Democrats have simply assumed that the black vote is there for them.
00:33:31.000Kimberly Klasick, who is a candidate in Baltimore for Congress, in Elijah Cummings' old district.
00:33:37.000She cut a great ad the other day about the destruction that Democratic rule has wrought in Baltimore.
00:33:42.000Well, she spoke at the RNC and she was terrific.
00:33:46.000Sadly, the same cycle of decay exists in many of America's Democrat-run cities.
00:33:51.000And yet the Democrats still assume that black people will vote for them, no matter how much they let us down and take us for granted.
00:34:32.000He contrasted the United States with communist countries and talked at length about why it is that America is a fantastic, fantastic place.
00:34:39.000This is a good reminder, gang, that people who have actually lived under tyranny understand just how wonderful America is and what it would mean to lose it.
00:34:45.000Here's Maximo Alvarez, who I thought was the most moving speaker of the night.
00:35:36.000I may be a Cuban born, but I am 100% American.
00:35:41.000This is the greatest country in the world.
00:35:48.000And I said this before, if I gave away everything that I have today, it would not equal 1% of what I was given.
00:36:01.000When I came to this great country of ours, the gift of freedom...
00:36:08.000The fact that this is a man who understands gratitude for the country he has been given, that's the major difference in our politics.
00:36:14.000People who are grateful for the principles of the Declaration of Independence, people who are grateful for what they have been given, that they didn't hit a triple, they were born on third base, and people who have decided that all the good things in life are natural to life.
00:36:26.000And that we can simply dispense with all of the systems that created those things, because those systems are inherently bad and terrible.
00:37:46.000Nancy Pelosi has stacked into the relief packages state and local tax deductions, which is a way for California to charge insane levels of taxation and then take the money out from the federal government coffers, essentially.
00:38:02.000After eight years of Obama and Biden's slow growth, Trump's policies have been like rocket fuel to the economy and especially to the middle class.
00:38:11.000Biden has promised to take that money back out of your pocket and keep it in the swamp.
00:38:17.000That makes sense, though, considering Joe Biden is basically the Loch Ness Monster of the swamp.
00:38:22.000For the past half century, he's been lurking around in there.
00:38:26.000He sticks his head up every now and then to run for president.
00:38:30.000Then he disappears and doesn't do much in between.
00:38:36.000also went after the cancel culture that is being promoted by the Democrats.
00:38:38.000By the way, the cancel culture is so strong right now, and the insane level of censoriousness is so strong right now.
00:38:43.000There's a video that's going around on Twitter, it's pretty incredible, of Black Lives Matter activists literally walking up to people at a Washington, D.C.
00:38:50.000restaurant and demanding that they raise their fists in a salute to black power.
00:38:55.000And when two people who are just sitting there are like, no, they start berating them publicly.
00:38:59.000That is where we are as a country, and it ain't good.
00:40:02.000Because no matter what the Democrats say, you and I both know, when we dial 911, we don't want it going to voicemail.
00:40:11.000So defunding the police is not an option.
00:40:15.000Everything starts with safety and security.
00:40:17.000You can't have anything else without it.
00:40:20.000Okay, so these were all of the lead-up speeches.
00:40:23.000Then, there were the two kind of concluding speeches, and they were both great.
00:40:28.000And these are both figures who are going to be very important to the future of the Republican Party.
00:40:31.000One is former ambassador to the UN and my spirit animal, Nikki Haley, and the other was Senator Tim Scott.
00:40:36.000Both of them gave, I thought, excellent speeches last night.
00:40:38.000The media have been trying to pretend that these were sort of outliers, right?
00:40:41.000The media's goal here is to pretend that the Republican Party is all of Trump's worst excesses, that it is not in fact comprised of candidates like Nikki Haley and Tim Scott.
00:40:50.000And so what they attempted to do is say, well, they're out of step with sort of the Trumpian base. No, they're really, really not. I mean, both of these figures are very popular inside the Republican Party. So Nikki Haley pointed out correctly that Joe Biden has basically taken the strategy of blaming America first for all problems in the world.
00:41:05.000Here is the former governor of South Carolina, former UN ambassador under President Trump, and a person with a great personal story, by the way.
00:41:11.000I mean, both Tim Scott and Nikki Haley are people who appreciate America because of their background, right?
00:41:15.000Nikki Haley is the daughter of two Indian immigrants and would never be treated, by the way, with the same sort of Kid gloves that the media have treated Kamala Harris, who's the daughter of Jamaican immigrant and an Indian immigrant.
00:41:27.000Here's Nikki Haley talking about Joe Biden blaming America first.
00:44:18.000It's about you and me, our challenges and heartbreaks, hopes and dreams.
00:44:22.000It's about how we respond when tackling critical issues like police reform.
00:44:27.000When Democrats called our work a token effort and walked out of the room during negotiations because they wanted the issue more than they wanted a solution.
00:44:39.000Here's Tim Scott making the point that I've been making for weeks here.
00:44:42.000And when it comes to racism, Democrats are more interested in labeling everyone they don't like racist and labeling the system racist so that you will give them power.
00:44:48.000Then they aren't actually solving problems.
00:44:50.000And Tim Scott should know since he's the one who proposed the police reform bill, Democrats then filibustered.
00:44:54.000Scott also gave an inspiring message about the fact that this is an incredible country.
00:44:57.000He says, my family went from cotton to Congress in one lifetime.
00:45:01.000I know we're supposed to pretend that racial progress has not taken place.
00:45:04.000I know we're supposed to pretend like Isabel Wilkerson that we're still living in a caste system in the United States.
00:45:08.000We're supposed to pretend like Ibram Kendi that racism just went underground and reemerged as all of our soft systems of institutional power.
00:45:19.000My grandfather's 99th birthday would have been tomorrow.
00:45:24.000Growing up, he had to cross the street if a white person was coming.
00:45:29.000He suffered the indignity of being forced out of school as a third grader to pick cotton, and he never learned to read or write.
00:45:40.000Yet he lived long enough to see his grandson become the first African American to be elected to both the United States House and the United States Senate in the history of this country.
00:45:54.000Our family went from cotton to Congress in one lifetime.
00:46:00.000And that's why I believe the next American century can be better than the last.
00:46:07.000Isn't that a better message than the message being put forth by people like Kamala Harris, that America is systemically racist, and that you're always behind the eight ball, or Michelle Obama, that there's a never-ending list of black people being victimized in the United States right now?
00:46:18.000Isn't that a more inspiring and a truer message?
00:46:21.000So Scott says Democrats basically want to fundamentally transform the country, the same country that has allowed for that sort of progress.
00:46:40.000Joe Biden and Kamala Harris want a cultural revolution, a fundamentally different America.
00:46:48.000If we let them, they will turn our country into a socialist utopia.
00:46:53.000And history has taught us that path only leads to pain and misery, especially for hardworking people hoping to rise.
00:47:03.000So the media's response to this was absolute abject horror that members of minority communities would dare speak as Republicans.
00:47:10.000My favorite version of this was George Stephanopoulos grilling Nikki Haley on racism.
00:47:15.000Because George Stephanopoulos, who is the whitest person in America, the Keebler elf, grilling Nikki Haley, the daughter of two Indian immigrants, on racism because George Stephanopoulos knows racism.
00:47:24.000I mean, that's a man who knows racism, obviously.
00:47:26.000Here he was, suggesting that Nikki Haley is truly making room for racists because she's supporting President Trump.
00:47:33.000I asked you what President Trump has done to heal that racial divide, and you know, you wrote that you were deeply disturbed by President Trump's comments after Charlottesville.
00:47:41.000Since then, he's tweeted out a video of his supporters chanting white power, praised the confederate flag, which you called divisive in your speech last night, so I'll ask the question again.
00:47:50.000What specifically has President Trump done to address this systemic racism, the racial divide?
00:47:56.000Well, I will tell you, first of all, President Trump has passed criminal justice reform, which Obama and Biden didn't do.
00:48:03.000So my favorite thing from Democrats is when they question how President Trump has bridged the racial divide while Democrats are actively trying to widen the racial divide.
00:48:12.000It doesn't make excuses for all the bad things Trump has said over the course of his career.
00:48:16.000But right now, if you're looking at people who are actively attempting to create racial divides in the country, the Democrats, members of the media, but I repeat myself, are doing exactly that.
00:48:25.000That's what you're watching happen ad nauseum in Wisconsin right now.
00:48:29.000You're watching it happen day by day in the media right now.
00:48:32.000And they cannot stand the fact that Republicans, actually, there's some minority Republicans who disagree with that Democratic agenda.
00:48:39.000Alrighty, we'll be back here later today for two additional hours of content.
00:48:42.000Otherwise, we'll see you here tomorrow to recap night two of the RNC and whatever the Black Lives Matter rioters and looters decide to burn tomorrow or tonight.